About us
The Centre for Documentary Research at QUB was launched in April 2017. It is an initiative that offers a space to debate issues and organise activities around the study and practice of documentary film. Our team in interdisciplinary, with interests in Film, Languages, English and History. We are scholars, students, curators and practitioners of documentary film, with interests including mental health, conflict, experimental film, Brazilian protest films, ethnographic film, visual arts, new media and interactivity.
The Centre for Documentary Research runs workshops, screenings, seminars, and conferences; contribute to publications; and, of course, make documentary films.
Board of Management, 2026:
Professor Stefano Baschiera, Dr Elena Caoduro, Dr Michael Holly, Dr Suhyun Kim, Dr Des O' Rawe, Dr Humberto Saldanha
Contact us at: documentaryresearch@qub.ac.uk
Home Frames Conference: Call for papers
The Centre for Documentary Research is pleased to invite submissions for Home Frames: Documentary and the Domestic Space. Please visit here for full submission information
Upcoming events
Seminar Series: Elisabeth Brun
13.02.2026 | 15:00 - 17:00 | Queen's Film Theatre Screen 2
Moving Image Topography: place as an eco-critical lens in essay-film practice
In experimental and essayistic film practice, place is far more than a setting or a backdrop - it is a critical generative force for critical thinking, - a vital lens for understanding the eco-critical and epistemological potential of moving image arts and their mode of thinking.
This is a key point in Elisabeth Brun´s recent book Place and the Moving Image: experimental film practice as topography, which argues that place, has been largely underexplored as constitutive for thinking through film. Drawing on her work, in which place and artistic research is central, Brun will, in her talk, present and screen how she explores essayistic film-practice as as a mode of place-thinking, through camera techniques and through her conceptual model of Moving Image Topography.
Collaborations
We have established collaborative relationships with local and international groups:
The Centre for Creative Ethnography
Documentary Film Institute, San Francisco State University
Journals of Interest